![Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.](/assets/img/quote-photos/star-trek-was-an-attempt-to-say-that-humanity-will-reach-maturity-and-wisdom-on-t.jpg)
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But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it. Rob Sheffield
stars video band
He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio. Richelle Mead
stars skeletons flames
Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.
stars sky government
Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky. Reinhold Niebuhr
stars people looks
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. Willie Aames
stars boredom restless
With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars. William Wordsworth
stars moving ocean
Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them. William Saroyan
stars understanding canada
My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars. William Shatner
stars impossible imagine
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
maturity causes individual
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. Richard Owen
maturity caution
Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have. William S. Burroughs
maturity awakening tests
The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts. Woody Allen
maturity giving demand
To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . . Richard Rohr
maturity grandparent long
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. Samuel Johnson
maturity perfect age
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. W. Somerset Maugham
maturity people common-sense
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy. William O. Douglas
maturity discipline mind
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not. Joseph B. Wirthlin
maturity people interaction
I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks. Nicos Anastasiades
ideas influence outcome time wants
He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it. Joe Monahan
ideas ton
There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.
ideas whatever
We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.
ideas words
ideas and words that do not make any sense. Isadora Duncan
ideas mind riches
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. Robert Collier
ideas rocks perspective
Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea. Rob Reiner
ideas walks
The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.
ideas musical ratios
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
ideas president novelists
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen. Richard Paul Evans